Description: Kyung Hyun Kim considers the recent global success of Korean popular culture--the Korean wave of pop music, cinema, and television also known as hallyu--from a transnational and transcultural perspective.
Review Quotes: "Hegemonic Mimicry presents a much-needed update on today's South Korean pop culture--one of the most fascinating epicenters of global cultural flows. Offering a probing insight into a wide spectrum of media productions, it is bound to be a must-read for those hoping to capture the symptomatic signs of the new millennium."--Suk-Young Kim, author of "K-Pop Live: Fans, Idols, and Multimedia Performance"